Quotes from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

In moments when fever, agony, and pain make it hard to pray, the suggestion of prayer that comes from merely holding the rosary - or better still, from caressing the Crucifix at the end of it - is tremendous!

Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

The day that man forgets that love is identical with sacrifice, he will ask how a God of love could demand mortification and self-denial.

How can one love self without being selfish? How can one love others without losing self? The answer is: By loving both self and neighbor in God. It is His Love that makes us love both self and neighbor rightly.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little kinks.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.